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Waterfalls in Guatemala!
The beauty and nature of Guatemala has been hided from the world during all its history. Nevertheless, over time, the passionate interest of travelers to explorer their own country and explorer new counties has helped in the process to discover that beauty has been saved during thousands of years; this is the case of Waterfalls La Igualdad.
La Igualdad is a community located on the slopes of the Tajumulco volcano, this community is surrounded by forest, a unique flora and fauna in the region and a weather that makes mystic the trek to arrive the waterfalls that have an hight about 187 meters, this is considered one of the highest, not only in Guatemala but in Central America.
All area of this community was owner as a private property, a landowner farm in the past, that over time was given to the community with the proposed that all produced by the community was a benefit to the community not only for one person. This people have been producing coffee as a principal product, it means the community does a hard labour with all the process coffee production require.
Over time, the creativity of people woke up, they realized they owned a natural wealth that was hidden and it can give them a best benefits, opportunities and development, instead of coffee production.
Social tourism projects like this have been developing all over the country with a similar histories.
Because of the incentive of community itself, they started the construction of path where visitor can go to arrive where the waterfalls are located, and because of to be so close to the volcano, they can find vein in the area, those ones have been used in the best way, the community constructed pools to capture the hot springs and they put together the concept of eco-tourism and social tourism.
Social tourism because in order to do this trek is necessary the connection between the tour operator and the representatives of the community.
Travel & Health Guatemala gives you this connection, transportation and guides from Xela together the recommendation to enjoy this community. But arriving the community, they becomes into our guides. The principal objective of Social tourism is that the community get the principal benefit. Working together with the tour operator, including the people as a representatives of the community in order to show the world its culture, ecology, tradition and life, without affect negatively; it means, the culture is not going change, we are not going to destroy the ecology and we are not going to disturb its lifestyle.
For ending, we can enjoy a bath considered as a therapeutic or medical treatment because of the properties of the hot springs of volcano, making of this trip a natural paradise.
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